Caramel Cake

Name: Caramel Cake (Gateau au Caramel)
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ½ Cupful of Milk; ½ Pound of Chocolate; 2 Tablespoonfuls of Vanilla; A Tablespoonful of Vanilla; 2 Cupfuls of Brown Sugar; A Cupful of Sweet Cream; 2 Teaspoonfuls of Vanilla; ½ Pound of Brown Sugar; A Tablespoonful of Butter; A Cupful of Butter, or Lard; 2 Teaspoonfuls of Baking Powder; 2 Cupfuls of Sugar; A Cupful of Milk; 1½ Cupfuls of Flour, Sifted; A Cupful of Corn Starch; The Whites of 7 Eggs

Gateau au Caramel

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

By The Times Picayune Publishing Company

Published 1901

About

Ingredients

A Cupful of Butter, or Lard
2 Cupfuls of Sugar
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Americas
United States
Cake
Dessert
New Orleans
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter, add the sugar, and beat till very light. Add the milk. Mix well. Sift the flour, corn starch and baking powder together, and add gradually to the mixture, beating vigorously all the while. Add the Vanilla and the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Mix all quickly and lightly, turn into a long family pan, which has been buttered, and bake for half an hour in a moderat